Middle Earth Travel, started business in 2001, owned by some very experienced and established guides, determined to make a living doing what they like best: trekking tours. Over years we expanded our area of expertise to archeological, cultural and family tours but we stil focus on small, private groups and personal travelling experiences. We are licenced by the Turkish Tourism Ministry and registered by the Union of Turkish Travel Agencies
(TURSAB # : 3242) .
Our guide team includes Kerem Karaerkek , Atil Cüce , Deniz Cüce, Kate Clow (author of the guide to the Lycian Way) and other graduates with specialist knowledge of the history, natural history and culture of Turkey and its wild places. We have successfully led trekking tours for American, Belgian, Canadian, Dutch, English, French, German, Irish, Israeli, Italian, Katalan, Scottish, Spanish and South African customers. |
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Operations Manager / Guide
Born in 1973, Atil has been in tourism since high school and he has been leading trekking tours since 1997. He is the father since July 2009 of a beautiful girl, fittingly named Su Peri (Water Fairy) He has a B.A. degree in Philosophy and his knowledge of history on Asia Minor is remarkable. So get ready for intellectual conversations if he's going to guide you. His detailed planning and perfectionism makes his tours very well organized and thoroughly informative. Atil, who's fluent in English and knows some German, is responsible for tour development and operations of the company. |
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Chief Guide
After falling in love with mountains at the age of 17, Kerem started travelling almost every part of Turkey to climb and to be in nature. Over the years he made many good friends in all parts of Turkey. In 2001 he decided to turn his life's ambition to his business. He leads groups since 2001. Among his many hobbies are bird watching, botany and games of every kind. He has been Turkish 'GO' champion many times. He's a licensed English and Japanese guide and has a B.A. in Japanese Literature. Kerem is also responsible for the education and training of the new guides on board. He considers Kackar Mountains to be his real home in this world. In 2008 he worked for TEMA with a group of volunteers and locals (Turkish Foundation for Figting Erosion) in a Project and he revived and remade some very old (almost dissappeared) mountain paths to diversify tourism in the area and help out some dying mountain villages. The Project was a success and we use these new routes in our Kackar tours since 2008. |
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Deniz Cuce
Office Head
Born in 1976 in Kütahya, he started to study mathematics at Karadeniz Teknik University in Trabzon. His passion for details is the guarantee that your tour arrangements will be handled flawlessly. |
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Tour Developer / Guide
Kate is certainly the most well-known among us. To summarise, she's the founder of Turkey's only long distance trekking routes ' The Lycian Way ' and ' St. Paul Trail ' the author of the related boks as well as Kackar Mountains book. Living in Turkey for the last 15 years, she has two identities now: British and Turkish. Her deep knowledge on history, flowers and animals are higly appreciated by the trekkers joining her groups. Kate develops and designs tours for us and leads groups only on certain departures (can be checked from our website). And her nice house at Antalya has always been a base camp for us. |
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Ilhan Varlık
Tour Guide
Born in 1971. Educated on Tourism Managament. His special interest in flowers and trees along with a broad knowladge of middle east history makes him. differ. He loves to play squash. No doubt that you will feel yourself in professional hands with him. |
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Abbas Ozgur Tepe
Tour Guide
Born in 1978, Özgür has a B.A in Tourism Guiding and Management. He is a professional tourist guide with a broad knowledge of archeology and art history. He has an interest in literature, folklore and heterodox sect of islam. His career includes working in Florida and for several travel agencies. Having a romantic and poetic side, Özgür is very enjoyable with his relaxed personality. |
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Koray Ata
Tour Guide
Born in München at 1980. He knows perfect German and English. He is been guiding since 2003 in all regions of Turkey. He has a master degree on ancient history. He belives in ultimate freedom and mother nature...His knowledge about history and wild life makes a perfect combination for an outdoor guide.
"Stay wild, live free... Rock'n roll in a free world' |
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Gaye Gonulal
Tour Guide
She has been in the tourism industry for 7 years. Before, she had been working for a bank, writing reports for 3 years. She has B.A. in Business Administration, but she preferred to be in the nature. She is quite energetic, because of this, it is impossible to sit all day for her. If you don't see her, you can follow her laughes easily. She's a licenced professional tourist guide. Before mountains, she guided underwater. She has worked as a professional diving instructor as well. She is PADI diving instructor. |
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Uraz Nehir
Tour Guide
Born in 1984. After graduating from Kalaba Anatolian High School , he continues his education in Hacettepe University . He is a licenced footballer, basketball player and swimmer for 2 years. Also, he is a member of trekking and mountaineering club. He worked in several jobs and gained experience in tourism area before joining Middle Earth team. |
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Firat Solak
Tour Guide
Born in 1985. Educated on tourism guiding in Cappadocia. He's been guiding for
4 years and he's the coolest guide ever :D. Joined to Middle Earth Travel coincidencely but he's glad. He is one of the followers of CaRpe Diem so you won't think about tomorrow with him ;))) |
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The aim of Middle Earth Travel is to let you feel the magic of Turkey, a land where nature and history are blended into incredible huge landscape and a thousand small, but perfect, memories. Come and join our fellowship, we'll put our spell on you. Our other web sites:
www.kackarmountains.com
www.lycianway.com
Our web sites can help you gather information not only on our activities, but also on the possibilities of independent trekking in the mountains of Turkey.
Address :
Gaferli Mah. Cevizler Sokak No: 20, 50180 Goreme
Nevsehir / TURKEY
Phone: +90 (0) 384 271 25 59
Fax: +90 (0) 384 271 25 62
www.middleearthtravel.com
e-mail : sales@middleearthtravel.com |
